How can robots facilitate social interaction of children with autism?: Possible
implications for educational environmentsEmiMiyamotoauthorMingyiLeeauthorHiroyukiFujiiauthorMichioOkadaauthorChildren with autism have difficulties in social
interaction with other people and much attention
in recent years has been directed to robots as therapy
tools. We studied the social interaction between
children with autism and robots longitudinally
to observe developmental changes in their
performance. We observed children at a special
school for six months and analyzed their performance
with robots. The results showed that two
children adapted to the experimental situations
and developed interaction with the robots. This
suggests that they changed their interaction with
the robots from an object-like one into an agentlike
one.Developmental PsychologyRobotics2005Lund University Cognitive StudiesConference Poster